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Defending Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of HappinessThu, 17 Aug 2017 02:05:47 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: The Elephant's Childhttps://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/there-is-no-right-to-be-free-from-being-offended/#comment-21544
Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:33:16 +0000http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=37742#comment-21544You’re right of course. Those who so glibly recite the talking points often seem not to understand the issue in question at all. But the focus on winning has become so intense, it seems like something has shifted. Fear that it all might collapse? A president who has such a casual relationship with truth? Recognition that the Obama administration is not what it pretended to be? The liberal fascism has become dominant, and it’s disturbing.

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Mon, 07 Apr 2014 20:27:10 +0000http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=37742#comment-21543You are right of course. I think that those Democrats who so glibly repeat the chosen words don’t even understand the issue. And the intense focus on winning has come in with Obama. Something has shifted, and I’m not sure I completely understand just what it is. Perhaps the president’s very casual relationship with the truth?

]]>By: Lon Meadhttps://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2014/04/06/there-is-no-right-to-be-free-from-being-offended/#comment-21541
Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:19:13 +0000http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=37742#comment-21541“I have generously always assumed that the wordsmiths at Think Progress come up with what they hope will be the most fortuitous description of an idea or a policy to sway the minds of potential voters, then run the preferred words by a few focus groups to assure that they’ve got the best verbiage, then send it out to every Democrat politician who might use the words in public.”

Not just ThinkProgress… Democrats in general have been doing this for years. Not that there’s anything wrong with wanting to make your ideas as palatable as possible to the broadest available audience… that’s simply marketing. The problem came when the Democrats found that there was no way to dress their ideas that made them acceptable, so they then moved onto lying, and finding ways to make the lies acceptable. What they wanted to do has long since become less important than simply winning. If you forced most Democrats to speak honestly about the issues, they wouldn’t have anything to say.